overwhelmed - Story 99429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment David saw the familiar logo, his stomach lurched. He felt a sudden, intense heat flush his cheeks. He fumbled with the invitation, his fingers clumsy, tearing the envelope slightly. He barely registered the contents. He needed to get out, he needed to escape the confined space of his office.

He stood abruptly, knocking over his chair. He didn't bother to pick it up. He grabbed his coat, his keys, and practically ran out the door. The fresh air outside offered only a momentary reprieve. He felt a dark cloud descending, threatening to suffocate him.

Emotion: overwhelmed

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.52 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.94

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion overwhelmed. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 overwhelmed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the overwhelmed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the overwhelmed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.385
`😫`	0.332
`😖`	0.319
`😣`	0.319
`😩`	0.314

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.576
`de`	-0.496
`a`	-0.297
`happy`	-0.290
`l`	-0.264